Disturbing calculations : the economics of identity in postcolonial Southern literature, 1912-2002
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- ISBN: 9780820329727
- ISBN: 082032972X
- ISBN: 9780820331126
- ISBN: 0820331120
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xi, 263 pages ; 24 cm. - Publisher: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, [2008]
- Copyright: ©2008
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-251) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The fetish of number : narcissism, economics, and the twentieth century Southern ego -- The fetish of surplus value : reconstructing the white elite in Allen Tate, William Alexander Percy, William Faulkner, and Thomas Wolfe -- Stealing themselves out of slavery : African American Southerners in Richard Wright, William Attaway, James Weldon Johnson, and Zora Neale Hurston -- The measures of love : Southern belles and working girls in Frances Newman, Anita Loos, and Katherine Anne Porter -- Contemporary crises of value : white trash, black paralysis, and elite amnesia in Dorothy Allison, Alice Walker, and Walker Percy -- Remembering the missing : Native Americans, immigrants, and Atlanta's murdered children in Louis Owens, Marilou Awiakta, Lan Cao, James Baldwin, Toni Cade Bambara, and Tayari Jones. |
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